With hundreds of gorgeous color photos—many filling two pages—this book surveys more than 30 of the world's honored and enduring rights of passage. They range from blessings for the newborns in a small Spanish village to a girl's initiation into womanhood among the Apaches of Arizona, from the bulljumping performed by Hamar boys coming of age in Ethiopia to high-school graduation in Sweden, and from a woman's first childbirth in Palau to the festival devoted to reburying the dead in Madagascar. Swedish photojournalist Anders Ryman spent seven years traveling the globe to capture these cultural milestones in vivid, energetic images of the human life journey, captioned in English, French, and German.